A "collaborative syllabus" is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course. Those specifics can be any element that a professor is willing to be flexible with ...

Molly Tipton failed at her first try last winter at putting classroom resources and homework assignments online—via a class MySpace page—after parents said they feared their children might get into ...

Moodle is a free and very useful course management system that facilitates the teaching of online classes to all age groups–elementary, middle, high school, and college–as well as organizations and ...

Math time in Nate Gabel’s fourth-grade Prairie View classroom means Moodle time. Students roll out the carts packed with laptops – the COWS, or Computers On Wheels as they’re called. Once the laptops ...

Moodle is a powerful LMS, there can be no doubt. Regardless of all it can do, however, there are times when you want a student to do something completely different and yet continue to use Moodle as ...

Many great inventions come to life because an inventor somewhere became frustrated. In the late 1990s Martin Dougiamas became frustrated with a learning management system (LMS) he was supporting at a ...

Should every professor on campus be required to use the college’s LMS system, whether they’re teaching online or not? Lasell College in Massachusetts is trying that. It’s requiring its entire faculty ...

What copyright laws apply to readings in a course management system, such as Moodle? Copyright laws apply to digital content the same as they do for paper. If you are ...

A "collaborative syllabus" is one in which the students have the ability to help determine the specifics of a course--a novel concept in K-12 but one that is being applied in higher education. Those ...